Pat Rechlin - Biography
About the Artist... Pat's ancestry included a Scottish Great Grandfather, who had twenty-six children. He managed to find time to do oil paintings at his farm. Although the sale of these paintings never brought him his dream of getting to America, these paintings did pay for many of his children to go there.
It may be that the genealogy has carried on, at least in the artistic sense. Early on in Pat's life she was assigned to paint a mural which covered three walls of her third grade classroom. She believes this was done as an attempt to overcome her precocious antsy nature. In sixth grade she won a gifted children's scholarship to the University of Boston, which she had to decline because of her mother's life threatening illness. Pat's first attempt at printmaking was in a 7th grade art class. Her teacher entered it into the NY State Fair. It won first place honors in the youth art division for a linoleum block print.
Pat worked since her teens as a freelance artist with a an emphasis on graphic design and illustration. Pat was attending Syracuse University, majoring in fine arts, when she left college to follow employment in Manhattan. She later left NYC to join her future husband's goals. She married and took an extended sabbatical from art to raise her children. During this time she produced only an occasional oil or acrylic painting purely for pleasure. These were done in a very structured, traditional style.
Along the way she was divorced and remarried some years later. A mother of a grown son and daughter, Pat and her husband moved to Pittsford, NY in 1989. While working full time for a major corporation, she started her own business, "One by One" by Pat Rechlin. Her ornamental porcelain adorned some of Rochester's finest gift shops and fine art shows. The evolution of shows went from porcelain to printmaking in the early 1990's. She soon joined the Pittsford Art Group and the Print Club of Rochester, NY.
Printmaking had become Pat's re-discovered passion. Having explored many different techniques used in this art form, she is confident she has arrived at a medium of expression which suits her best. She has adopted a style which most closely represents abstract-impressionism. Unlike her previous work, these prints exhibit a more fluid movement of form and color and a freedom from structured traditional art.
Nearly every moment of time she can steal from her other responsibilities, you'll find Pat in her print studio. She is happiest creating monotype, intaglio, relief, and collograph prints. Pat finds as much joy in exhibiting them at art shows, festivals, and now on the web.
Pat
appears in The New York Times, May 07, 2001
A large color photo of Pat
appeared with a co-worker in an article featured on the front page of the
Business Section, in the Sunday New York Times. Some of her artwork is
hanging on the walls in the background, as well.
